Way v. Fellows’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 2016
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Bacon v. Boston & Maine Railroad · Barber v. Bailey · Folsom v. Town of Underhill · Hyde v. Town of Jamaica · Deerfield Lumber Co. v. Lyman
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While adverse user by the public for the necessary period may be evidence-of an adoption, it is wholly ineffective, under our highway system, to establish a public highway, if the town authorities have refused or failed to sanction the adoption. Our decisions relating to the dedication of highways are in point. The question frequently arose under the highway damage law, and there it was held that neither a dedication of land to the public for a highway, nor the use of it as such by the public, was sufficient to impose upon the town the duty to keep it in repair, unless it had leen accepted and adopted by the proper town officers.” (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.